Dick Goodwin

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The Dick Goodwin Quintet
The Quintet has eleven music degrees and years of
university and public school teaching experience between
them. The group has often appeared with area orchestras
and at other cultural events and festivals in the
Southeast. The Dick Goodwin Quintet began touring in Latin
America for the US State Department in the early 70's, has
made a dozen trips abroad, and has given hundreds of
concerts in the US.

The Dick Goodwin Big Band
The Big Band has performed at major social events in the
Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia (including SC
Governor Riley's inaugural celebration concert with
Dizzy Gillespie) and has been featured in concert with
area orchestras. The players are Jim Hall (drums),
Dwight Spencer (guitar), Terry Trentham (bass), Doug
Graham (clarinet and saxophones), Charlie Polk and Dave
Allison (trumpets), Bruce Clark, Ashley Fleshman, and Ed
Craft (trombones), and John Wilkinson and Kristi Hood
(vocalists).

Dick and members of the band have
performed with such notables as Ray Charles, Bob Hope,
Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, Johnny
Mathis, the Spinners, the Platters, the Temptations, the
Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller orchestras,
Henry Mancini, Gregory Hines, Natalie Cole, Aretha
Franklin, and the touring company for the broadway show
"Chicago."